5 H APPENDIX. 



Ayu in the district of Kiri ; Dufile, Fatiko, Wadelai, Mahagi, and 

 Songa in the district of Dufile ; and Fadibek. 



Emin Pasha's original maps have been published in " Peter- 

 mann's Mitteilungen," and nearly all the names given in this 

 volume will be found on sheets i, 2, 7, and 8 of my Map of 

 Eastern Equatorial Africa, published by the Royal Geographical 

 Society.— E. G. R. 



BIOGRAPHICAL. 



Mtesa. — Mtesa was first heard of in Europe from Speke and Grant, 

 who visited Uganda in 1862. He professed to trace back his descent 

 to Kintu (or Ham), the founder of the dynasty. When I visited 

 him in 1879 he was about forty-five years of age, a splendid man, 

 some six feet high, well formed and strongly built. He had an oval 

 face, and his features were well cut. He had large milcl eyes, but if 

 roused by anger or mirth they were lit up by a dangerous fire. He 

 had lost the pure Mhuma features through admixture of Negro 

 blood, but still retained sufficient characteristics of that tribe to 

 prevent all doubt as to his origin. All his movements were very 

 graceful ; his hands were slender, well-formed, and supple ; he was 

 generally dressed in a simple white Arab huftan. It is somewhat 

 difficult to describe his character ; he was intensely proud, very 

 egotistical, and until near the end of his life he thought himself 

 to be the greatest king on earth. In his youth, and in fact until 

 1878, there is no doubt that he was very cruel, but an illness from 

 which he suffered certainly softened him. His chiefs often said to 

 me, " Ah, if Mtesa were well, there would be plenty of executions." 

 It has been said that he was extremely changeable and fickle, and to 

 superficial observers he was so ; that is to say, as far as his inter- 

 course with Europeans went. If, however, one looks a little deeper 

 into his character, one finds that his apparent vacillation was over- 

 ruled by a fixed idea, which was to benefit his people, increase his 

 own importance, and to get as much as possible out of the strangers 

 who visited his court. This explains his being one day a friend to 

 the Arabs, on another to the Protestants, and on a third to the 

 Catholics. A new-comer, especially if he had a large caravan, was 

 always the favourite of the hour. It is not difficult for any one to 

 enter Uganda, but to get away again is no easy task, unless one is 

 going for a fresh supply of goods. Mtesa liked Europeans and 

 Arabs to be present at his court ; it gave him prestige, and he also 



